she vivisected sentencesslashed lines
made him grateful he wasnt the book or its
author he hadnt seen its spine or title
page
excoriated defiled if an editor she was brutal
NO
Vivisected
could
hear trees whine their papereddeaths their greenwood memories stories eviscerated pulped and rooted unable to ran away
he glanced sidelong at her
thought he would have hated to disappoint her in the bedroom when she was young but maybe
shed been disappointed too many times her pinched expression couldnt be age
alone she ran arrows to henscratched notes written
on diminishing margins used parentheses obliterated passages paragraphs
with a surgical finefine black point pen that didnt dare smear
conceding he leaned against the aircraft
bulkhead to provide her whatever room she needed unfortunately his gaze out the
porthole was compromised by a cloudcarpet for as far as he could see
then seeking a silver lining to
his situation he mustered a thin solacegrateful he hadnt been seated on the aisle he was lefthanded otherwise they would
have parried elbows meanwhile her right
jabbed madly at the aisleway
to alleviated a grimacing
consternation a growing maniacism
he imagined
since the book was hardbound she acquired two copies viciously notating seemed apparent
one while the second was safe on a shelf probably containedcondemned to a hermetic barrister bookcase as she defaced plied the firstperhaps with interior monologues
recitations ideas desperations that she acquiredconceived as she read then scratchprinted
she
was unlike him
books were sacred
he tucked foldedpapers at the back of books and noteddidnt violate the text with
pg numbers what paragraphs words what ideas they germinated
she made his flight long
1230perhaps, day-between-2-Ts, 3 4.
24
2214, Sunday, 14 4.
24
0947, Monday,
15 4. 24
Beatles Paperback Writer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SepZDSkY4Ro
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